Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1887-07-22
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Written and compiled for the HERALD.

fide, but stimulated by the dett
Vaccinations of a ring of landed
gamblers, who are coming fortunes
ont of their shrewd enterprises.
Though strange and startling Al
may seem, l believe it is neverthe-
less true, that President Cleveland
and one or two members Of his
Cabinet are either in this specula-
tive clique or tools of it, for my IN
formant is perfectly trustworthy
and seldom makes a mistake. Presl-
dent Cleveland has not yet paid
for his new home in this city, 1t be-
ing given to him as an advertise
ment and an incentive to purchase
By capitalists owning lots IN that
vicinity. Mr.. Whitney has reaped
a rich profit from his Investment,
which probably amounted to little
OF real value, by selling his subur'
ban seat "Grasslands,' at a gain OF
s75,OOO,OOO, on his alleged pur-
chase.
The Superintendent of the Geo
logical Survey has submitted to the
Secretary of Interior, an extensive
plan of operations for the fiscal
year, IN continuing the topograph-
ical survey of the United States, it
is expected that important and val
liable scientific and neurological
results will be secured, especially
as regards the great earthquake at
Charleston last year.
Under a recent act of Congress
authority was granted for the re-
turn to the rightful owners of the
famous Twiggs swords, captured
by General Butler, at New Orleans,
in 1862, and the matter has been
referred to the Court OF Claims by
the Secretary of the Treasury, an
English lady who says that Gen
Twiggs presented her the swords
at the time he escaped from New
Orleans, and the executor of the
Generals estate both having filed
claims to the historical trophies.
The official AK is beginning its
fall on the devoted head OF the
Grand Army of the Republic men,
the first victim being Major Chas.
L. Belle, a special pension exam
iner, who was a gallant Union Vet
eran, his only offence being a crit
clsm in private conversation of the
Presidents battle.flag order Fol-
this he was summarily dismissed
by General Black at least such is
the suppOsitiOn-as the autOcratiC
official declines to give any reason
Major Behle has appealed from
General Black to Secretary Lamar
and while the result is awaited with
interest, / doubt if the dreamy Sec
rotary Interferes with the harmoni
Gus working Of his subordinate
boom for the Vice-Presidency.
know it to be a fact that the Pen
sion Bureau is being used as pO-
litical agency to advance the de.
signs OF the chief IN his grand hunt
for the best Office in sight. Facts
have been distorted in the effort to
show that mora work than ever
for the same time, has been done
in that Office during the present
Administration.
The Interstate Commission has
adjusted its first case Of an alleged
Overcharge by a railroad for car
rying freight-the Oregon railway
and Navigation Company, being
the deiendent, and a poor widow Of
Washington Territory, being the
complainant, for the sum of twenty
dollars.
The great Pan.Electric scandal
is again brought to the front by
DIR. Rogers, who believing that he
was about to be defrauded, pub.
lished a notice forbidding the sale
of the stock, for which the brokers
are offering SO per share. In that
publication Rogers bluntly uses the
names of those leading Democratic
lights-Senator Harris, Attorney
General Garland, Gen. Joe. John
ston and Indian Commissioner
Atkins.
Since the discovery OF Harvey's
defalcatiOn a general and search
ing investigation has been set OF
foot in the Treasury Department
and it is said that important, if noI
sensational developments, may b'
expected in that quarter ere long,
for it has not been the custom
heretofore to scrutinize the &C
counts of disbursing officers. 1t il
really small wonder that such loos'
methods has often led to Oflicia
crOOkedness, as in the cases of Ba
con and Harvey. The Interstate
Commission has taken emphatic
and important action on the motion
Of the Missouri Pacific railroads t
dismiss the complaint Of the whole
sale grocers OF st. Louis, as regard
the issuing of mileage tickets-th'
corporation urging that the Com
mission had no jurisdiction, bu
the latter body declined to taxi
immediate action until the result